diff --git a/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-01_autoconf-macrodir.patch b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-01_autoconf-macrodir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71fe8dea92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/x11/data/xkeyboard-config/patches/xkeyboard-config-01_autoconf-macrodir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index fb31994..42f9eee 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
++AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ AC_INIT(xkeyboard-config, 2.9)
+ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(rules/base.xml.in)
+ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])